This document discusses five approaches to job design: job rotation, job engineering, job enlargement, job enrichment, and socio-technical systems. Job rotation involves moving employees between different jobs to reduce boredom and allow them to gain new skills. However, it increases training costs and can disrupt work and demotivate employees seeking specialized responsibilities.

1. JOB DESIGNJOB DESIGN
APPROACHESAPPROACHES
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2. JOB DESIGN APPROACHESJOB DESIGN APPROACHES
Five popular approaches are
• Job rotation
• Job engineering
• Job enlargement
• Job enrichment
• Socio-technical system

3. Job Rotation
Job Engineering.
Job
Enlargement.
Job
Enrichment.
Socio-technical
Systems
Low Medium High
Complexity
Low
Medium
High
Impact

4. JOB ROTATIONJOB ROTATION
• Job rotation refers to moving employees
from job to job to add variety and reduce
boredom by allowing them to perform a
variety of tasks.
• It reduces boredom and disinterest through
diversifying the employee’s activities.
• Employees with a wider range of skills give
the management more flexibility in
scheduling work, adapting to changes and
filling vacancies.
• Job rotation is also practiced to allow
qualified employees to gain more insights in
to the process of a company.

5. DISADVANTAGESDISADVANTAGES
• Training costs are increased.
• work is disrupted as rotated employees
take time to adjust to a new set up.
• It can demotivate intelligent and ambitious
trainees who seek specific responsibilities in
their chosen speciality.

6. DISADVANTAGESDISADVANTAGES
• Training costs are increased.
• work is disrupted as rotated employees
take time to adjust to a new set up.
• It can demotivate intelligent and ambitious
trainees who seek specific responsibilities in
their chosen speciality.